At the annual 4-H Career Explorations conference, tasting mealworms wasn't the only thing on the menu, as 360 teens and 80 adult chaperones sampled a variety of scientific pursuits.
The 2015 Community Development Institute at Cornell July 14-15 will focus on strong families, strong communities and strategies to support the connections between them.
Aiming to protect consumers from foodborne illness, produce farmers should wait 24 hours after a rain or irrigating their field to harvest crops - to reduce the risk to a major foodborne pathogen.
Cornell researchers used cutting-edge X-ray technology to noninvasively image fruit flies during and after mating, revealing changes that occur in the female fruit flies' reproductive tract.
In an ongoing battle to save the ecologically important hemlock forests, Cornell researchers have high hopes for a new weapon against menacing woolly adelgids: silver flies.
Russian farmers are visiting northern New York state to meet with a Cornell expert to learn how to tackle devastating alfalfa snout beetles native to their homeland.
Cornell’s Adult University, “a learning vacation” for the family, combines academics with the fun of a summer trip to Ithaca and Summer College brings talented high school students to campus.
More than 130 participants gathered in Syracuse to explore how to meet the workforce demands of the food and beverage industry in New York, which is expected to expand 30 percent in the next decade.
